关于婚姻的英文名言
按：国庆和老婆一起听到一篇有声读物，似乎是周国平写的散文，提及历代文人/哲人对婚姻的调侃，其中最有名的一句，当属蒙田引用某人的话，美好的婚姻是由视而不见的妻子和充耳不闻的丈夫组成的。调侃归调侃，也道出一个事实，要想婚姻幸福，必须大事清醒，小事糊涂，如果反过来，那无疑是一场悲剧，其实在中国古代，婚姻本作昏因（一说：男以昏时迎女，女因男而来）。我从网上摘抄了更多关于婚姻的英文名言，作为学英语的材料，并不代表我认同以下所有观点。关于名言的署名，我个人感觉不尽正确，不必较真。这些名言，多出自男人之手，所以隐含对女性的不尊重，这是时代和观念的局限，也不必上纲上线，只是作为学习英文的素材。
第一部分：关于婚姻的英文名言 – 调侃篇
1. When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
如果有人抢了你的老婆，最好的报复就是让他留着。
2. After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can’t face each other, but still they stay together.
—— Hemant Joshi
结婚后夫妻就像一个硬币的两面；他们不但不能面对面，而且还分不开。
3. By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll be happy. If you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.
不管怎么样，还是结婚的好。如果你找到一个好太太，你会很幸福。假如你找到一个坏的，你会成为一个哲学家。
4. Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.
女人给了男人做大事的激励和灵感，同时又给了男人完成大事的阻力。
5. The great question… which I have not been able to answer… is, “What does a woman want?”
有一個好問題我總是沒答案；那就是“女人到底想要什麼？”
6. I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me.
—— Bill Clinton
我跟我太太才说了几个字，她却回了我一段长篇大论。
7. Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.
有人问我婚姻能维持这么长的秘密。我们每个星期去餐馆两次。晚餐有烛光，音乐，和跳舞。她星期二去，我星期五去。
8. I don’t worry about terrorism. I was married for two years.
我不怕恐怖分子。我已经结婚两年了。
9. Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming: 1. Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; 2. Whenever you’re right, shut up.
有两个秘密能让你的婚姻圆满：1. 当你错时，马上认错。2. 当你对时，闭上嘴巴。
10. The most effective way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once…
最有效的方法记住你太太的生日就是先忘掉一次。
11. My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
我太太和我都高高兴兴的过了二十年，然后我们相遇了。
12. A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.
一个好太太当她是错的时候总是原谅她的丈夫。
13. Marriage is the only war where one sleeps with the enemy.
婚姻是唯一与敌人睡在一张床上的战争。
13. First Guy (proudly): “My wife’s an angel!” Second Guy: “You’re lucky, mine’s still alive.”
有個人驕傲的說“我的太太是天使！“另一個到的人說“你真幸運！我的還活著！”
14. “Honey, what happened to ‘ladies first’?” Husband replies, “That’s the reason why the world’s a mess today, because a lady went first!”
“亲爱的，女士优先又怎么了？”丈夫回答说，“今天世界乱成这个样子就是因为有个女的先来了！”
15. It is not unnetmon for slight acquaintances to get married, but a couple really have to know each other to get divorced.
这并非罕见：稍微相识一些就可能结婚，但夫妇还真得互相了解才会离婚。
16. To marry is to halve your rights and double your duties.
—— Arthur Schopenhauer
结婚就是将你的权利减半，将你的职责加倍。
17. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
爱情是理想的事情，婚姻是现实的事情。
—— Goethe
18. A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
一个幸福的家庭是这样的：双方都认为对方有可能是对的，尽管双方都不相信对方是对的。
—— Don Fraser
19. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, and always with the same person.
一个成功的婚姻需要恋爱很多次，而且始终是与同一个人恋爱。
—— Mignon McLaughlin
20. A bachelor has to have inspiration for making love to a woman, a married man needs only an excuse.
光棍汉必须得绞尽脑汁才能和女人做爱，已婚男只需想出一个借口。
—— Helen Rowland
21. What do I know about sex? I’m a married man.
我怎么知道做爱是咋回事儿？我是已婚男子。
—— Tom Clancy
22. Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an acnetplishment in a bachelor, and second-nature in a married man.
撒谎是男孩的错误，情人的艺术，光棍的成就，已婚男人的第二天性。
—— Helen Rowland
23. No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
结婚的男人是不会真正幸福的，如果他结婚后喝的威士忌不得不比单身时常喝的威士忌差的话。
—— Henry Louis Mencken
24. Men marry because they are tired, women because they are curious; both are disappointed.
男人结婚，因为他们已经疲倦了；女人结婚，因为她们感到好奇了，结果两人都大失所望。
—— Oscar Wilde
25. Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.
女人嫁给男人，希望他们会所有改变。男人娶个女人，希望她们会永远不变。所以双方必然会失望的。
—— Albert Einstein
26. I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.
我在两个老婆身上的运气都很差。前面的那个扔下了我，现在的这个我扔不掉。
—— Patrick Murray
27. Marriage is an institution in which a man loses his bachelor’s degree and the woman gets her master’s.
婚姻是这样一所学校：男人会失去学士学位/单身汉的地位，而女人会获得硕士学位/征服者的地位。
28. Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men.
如今，所有的已婚男人过得像一个单身汉，而所有的单身汉过得像已婚男人。
—— Oscar Wilde
29. A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.
一个娶了女人想教育她的男人，和一个嫁给男人想改造他的女人都沦为同一个谬误的牺牲品。
—— Elbert Hubbard
30. A good marriage is made up of a wife who turns a blind eye and a husband who turns a deaf ear. (Translated by Google.)
美好的婚姻是由视而不见的妻子和充耳不闻的丈夫组成的。
—— Hemant Joshi
第二部分：关于婚姻的英文名言 – 深情篇
1. I’d rather die than stay away from you.
无相厮，毋宁死。
2. I’m all yours!
我全听你的。
3. Meeting you was fate, and falling in love with you was out of my control.
遇见是命运的安排，爱上是因我情难自禁。
4. Jenny and I was like peas and carrots.
我和珍妮形影不离。
5. Can I borrow a kiss? I promise I’ll give it back.
可以借给我一个吻吗？我保证会还你的。
6. I wanna write “I miss you” on a rock and throw it at your face so you know how much it hurts to miss you.
我想把“我想你”写在一块石头上，然后扔在你脸上，你就会知道想你有多么痛了。
7. Every time I think about you , I have to remind myself that if you wanted to talk to me, you would.
每一次想你，我都得提醒我自己，如果你想和我聊天的话，你早就开口了。
8. You are the apple of my eye.
你是我的掌上明珠。
9. If you asked me how many times you’ve crossed my mind, I would say once because you never really left.
假如你问我你曾多少次出现在我的脑海中，我会告诉你，只有一次，然后从未离开过。
10. 2 rules in marriage: 1. The wife is always right. 2. If the wife is wrong refer to rule 1.
美满婚姻须遵循两个规则：1. 妻子永远是对的；2. 如果她错了，请参考第一条。